NCES 2012-327 U . S . D E PA R T M E N T O F E D U C AT I O N

Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment and Staff Counts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2010–11 First Look

Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment and Staff Counts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2010–11First Look

APRIL 2012

Patrick KeatonNational Center for Education Statistics

NCES 2012-327U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

U.S. Department of Education Arne Duncan Secretary

Institute of Education Sciences John Q. Easton Director

National Center for Education StatisticsJack BuckleyCommissioner

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank all of the professionals in state and local education agencies who record, track, and report the data used in this report. Particular thanks are owed to the state EDFacts Coordinators and the state Common Core of Data (CCD) Coordinators, whose efforts make the CCD program possible.

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Contents Page

Acknowledgments ......................................................................................................................... iii

List of Tables ................................................................................................................................ vi

Introduction .....................................................................................................................................1

Selected Findings: School Year 2010–11 .......................................................................................3

References and Related Data Files .................................................................................................4

Tables ..............................................................................................................................................5

Appendix A: Methodology and Technical Notes ...................................................................... A-1

Appendix B: Common Core of Data Glossary ...........................................................................B-1

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List of Tables Table Page 1. Public school student membership, by grade and state or jurisdiction: School year

2010–11......................................................................................................................................6

2. Public school student membership and percentage distribution of public school student membership, by race/ethnicity and state or jurisdiction: School year 2010–11 ......................10

3. Number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) staff for public schools, by staff category and state or jurisdiction: School year 2010–11 .......................................................................................12

4. Total student membership, total staff, student/teacher ratio, and student/staff ratio for public elementary/secondary education, by teacher and staff category and state or jurisdiction: School year 2010–11 ...........................................................................................14

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Introduction

This report presents findings on the numbers of public school students and staff in the United States and other jurisdictions1 for school year 2010–11, using data from the State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education of the Common Core of Data (CCD) survey system. The CCD is an annual collection of data that are reported by state education agencies (SEAs) to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) through the U.S. Department of Education’s EDFacts data collection system.

The purpose of this report is to introduce new data through the presentation of tables containing descriptive information; therefore, the selected findings chosen for this report demonstrate the range of information available when using the CCD. The selected findings do not represent a complete review of all observed differences in the data and are not meant to emphasize any particular issue.

This report presents data from the State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education. For the State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education, SEAs report aggregated state-level counts of students by grade and by gender and race/ethnicity and counts of full-time-equivalent (FTE)2 teachers, aides, support staff, and administrators in public schools and school districts. State-level data presented in this report may differ from data in other CCD reports that are based on aggregated data from the Local Education Agency Universe Survey and the Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey.

Fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Bureau of Indian Education reported the 2010–11 CCD data through the EDFacts collection system; the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam reported directly to the CCD. The Department of Defense schools (also known as the Department of Defense Education Activity, or DoDEA) and American Samoa did not report data for the 2010–11 school year.

SEAs follow standard definitions for the data items they report to the CCD via the EDFacts collection system. In some cases, SEAs may be unable to report a data item, or may not be able to report a data item in exact accordance with a CCD definition. For these cases, NCES used values from alternate administrative data sources to edit the data or imputed missing data using statistical procedures. Please see Appendix A: Methodology and Technical Notes in this report for a detailed discussion of edits from alternate sources and imputations for missing data.

While tables include data for all of the CCD respondents, “United States” and “reporting states” totals in the tables include the 50 states and the District of Columbia and exclude data from the Bureau of Indian Education, DoDEA, Puerto Rico, or the other jurisdictions of American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.

1 The CCD includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Department of Defense schools, the Bureau of Indian Education, Puerto Rico, and the four other jurisdictions of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For ease of reading, in this report, the term “state” or “states” refers to these entities. 2 Full-time equivalency (FTE) is the amount of time required to perform an assignment stated as a proportion of a full-time position.

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Appendix A: Methodology and Technical Notes provides more information about the survey content and methodology. Appendix B: Common Core of Data Glossary provides definitions of CCD terms used in this report. More information about CCD surveys and products is available at http://nces.ed.gov/ccd.

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Selected Findings: School Year 2010–11 •

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Public elementary and secondary schools had 49.5 million students in membership3 in school year 2010–11 (table 1). This was an increase of 0.2 percent from student membership in school year 2009–10 (Sable and Plotts 2010).

Summing across grades, there were 34.6 million students enrolled in prekindergarten through grade 8 and ungraded classes; there were 14.8 million students enrolled in grades 9–12 in the 2010–11 school year (derived from table 1).

Among students for whom race/ethnicity was reported in the 2010–11 school year,4 52 percent of students were White; 23 percent were Hispanic; 16 percent were Black; 5 percent were Asian; 1 percent were American Indian/Alaska Native; less than 1 percent were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; and 2 percent were of Two or more races (table 2).

In school year 2010–11, public elementary and secondary schools and local education agencies employed a total of 6.2 million full-time-equivalent (FTE) staff (table 3). This was a decrease of 2.5 percent from the number of FTE staff employed in school year 2009–10 (Sable and Plotts 2010).

Of the FTE staff in the 2010–11 school year, 50 percent were teachers; 15 percent were instructional aides, instructional coordinators and supervisors, guidance counselors/directors, or librarians; and 24 percent were student and other support staff. School or district administrators comprised 4 percent of staff, and administrative support staff comprised the remaining 7 percent (derived from table 3).

The student/teacher ratio (i.e., the number of students for every teacher FTE) in public schools increased from 15.4 in school year 2009–10 (Sable and Plotts 2010) to 16.0 in school year 2010–11 (table 4). The ratio ranged from a high of 24.1 in California to a low of 11.4 in North Dakota. The elementary student/teacher ratio was 20.0, while the secondary student/teacher ratio was 12.4.

The category of other instructional and student support includes instructional aides, instructional coordinators and supervisors, librarians, library support, and student support services staff. In the 2010–11 school year, there were about 42.9 students for every instructional and student support staff member (table 4).

3 Membership is the number of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year. 4 Race/ethnicity was reported for 99.8 percent of the total student membership. All 50 states and the District of Columbia reported counts of students who were “Two or more races.”

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References and Related Data Files

References

Final Guidance on Maintaining, Collecting, and Reporting Racial and Ethnic Data to the U.S. Department of Education. 72 Fed. Reg. 59266-59279 (October 19, 2007); http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/other/2007-4/101907c.html.

Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. 62 Fed. Reg. 58782-58790 (October 30, 1997); http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/1997standards.html

Sable, J., and Plotts, C. (2010). Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment and Staff From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009–10 (NCES 2010-347). National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.

Related Data Files

Data files for all CCD surveys used in this report may be found on the CCD data page of the CCD website at http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/ccddata.asp.

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Tables

State or jurisdiction

Totalstudent

membership1Pre-

kindergartenKinder-garten Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5

United States2 49,484,181 1,278,678 3,682,092 3,753,951 3,700,668 3,685,833 3,711,341 3,717,521

Alabama 755,552 8,179 57,665 58,448 56,699 57,216 59,117 59,897Alaska 132,104 2,990 10,120 9,991 10,006 9,787 9,917 9,988Arizona 1,071,751 8,554 82,860 84,473 83,544 82,485 82,862 82,690Arkansas 482,114 14,059 37,701 37,651 36,770 36,624 36,873 36,628California 6,289,578 3 72,404 4 468,036 3 477,086 470,001 461,967 463,691 469,800

Colorado 843,316 30,593 65,182 65,665 65,885 64,238 63,819 63,328Connecticut 560,546 3 15,921 39,670 40,830 41,203 3 40,254 41,155 3 41,550Delaware 129,403 1,626 9,810 10,157 10,127 9,796 9,797 9,897District of Columbia 71,284 3 9,581 5,939 5,240 4,915 4,873 4,877 4,825Florida 2,643,347 52,779 197,097 200,806 196,620 205,650 200,682 200,738

Georgia 1,677,067 42,816 132,008 130,171 127,744 129,879 131,326 131,057Hawaii 179,601 1,393 16,028 14,754 14,540 14,234 13,457 14,171Idaho 275,859 1,821 21,144 21,865 21,577 21,592 21,575 21,434Illinois 2,091,654 3 78,260 146,225 3 153,996 151,647 153,926 153,781 154,636Indiana 1,047,232 3 11,652 76,765 81,397 78,857 78,972 82,387 80,081

Iowa 495,775 3 27,211 39,306 35,369 35,121 34,939 35,071 35,336Kansas 483,701 17,318 37,023 36,520 36,357 35,648 35,991 35,898Kentucky 673,128 3 24,260 3 51,091 3 52,207 3 50,855 3 51,279 3 51,189 3 50,980 3

Louisiana 696,558 29,657 54,276 55,750 53,975 53,842 58,778 52,976Maine 189,077 4,247 13,819 13,647 13,405 13,420 13,728 13,858

Maryland 852,211 29,377 62,704 63,635 63,086 62,640 60,765 61,641Massachusetts 955,563 27,747 67,496 70,973 70,797 70,312 71,140 71,402Michigan 1,587,067 28,187 112,835 116,028 112,653 112,875 115,722 117,035Minnesota 838,037 14,405 62,961 63,218 62,116 60,648 61,627 61,130Mississippi 490,526 3,447 38,923 39,740 37,607 38,157 38,295 39,155

Missouri 918,710 28,495 69,376 68,974 67,818 67,296 68,313 68,709Montana 141,693 1,351 11,115 11,066 10,813 10,693 10,751 10,535Nebraska 298,500 12,656 23,411 23,134 22,390 22,150 21,901 21,680Nevada 437,149 3 4,444 3 32,454 3 33,809 3 33,492 3 33,600 3 34,047 3 33,754 3

New Hampshire 194,711 3 3,097 3 11,970 3 14,120 3 13,913 3 14,187 3 14,294 3 14,602 3

New Jersey 1,402,548 53,564 92,413 99,976 98,791 97,716 98,641 99,344New Mexico 338,122 7,980 26,688 26,660 26,087 25,906 25,955 25,615New York 2,734,955 3 51,649 3 194,607 3 202,889 3 201,820 3 198,573 3 198,720 3 201,761 3

North Carolina 1,490,605 3 23,510 115,782 108,078 117,107 117,747 118,617 117,170North Dakota 96,323 1,529 7,449 7,484 7,197 6,915 6,974 6,676See notes at end of table.

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Table 1. Public school student membership, by grade and state or jurisdiction: School year 2010–11

State or jurisdiction

Totalstudent

membership1Pre-

kindergartenKinder-garten Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5

Table 1. Public school student membership, by grade and state or jurisdiction: School year 2010–11—Continued

Ohio 1,754,191 30,047 129,964 132,638 130,425 130,593 133,202 134,109Oklahoma 659,911 40,688 52,114 52,420 50,070 48,899 48,519 48,490Oregon 570,720 3 9,392 4 40,656 42,508 42,322 42,013 42,924 43,144Pennsylvania 1,793,284 16,294 128,120 131,170 130,253 129,292 132,497 134,499Rhode Island 143,793 2,054 10,057 11,070 10,745 10,755 10,865 10,195

South Carolina 725,838 24,188 54,624 55,328 53,846 54,100 55,636 55,887South Dakota 126,128 1,974 11,049 9,903 9,498 9,233 9,140 9,321Tennessee 987,422 3 28,787 3 76,642 3 76,706 3 74,788 3 74,793 3 75,481 3 75,057 3

Texas 4,935,715 249,122 374,195 387,899 379,910 375,454 374,111 372,509Utah 585,552 3 10,376 3 48,043 3 48,770 3 48,122 3 46,753 3 46,127 3 45,822 3

Vermont 96,858 3 10,678 3 6,259 3 6,213 3 6,171 3 6,214 3 6,291 3 6,294 3

Virginia 1,251,440 3 30,821 92,899 95,368 93,687 93,328 93,965 94,182Washington 1,043,788 12,056 75,933 78,598 77,707 76,802 78,546 79,062West Virginia 282,879 14,660 21,256 21,167 20,299 20,786 20,493 20,842Wisconsin 872,286 50,200 60,721 61,262 60,226 59,981 61,015 61,420Wyoming 89,009 582 7,611 7,124 7,064 6,801 6,694 6,711

Department of Defense dependents schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions

Department of Defense (DOD) — — — — — — — —Bureau of Indian Education 41,962 — 4,721 4,042 3,794 3,554 3,397 3,292American Samoa — — — — — — — —Guam 31,618 3 68 3 2,102 3 2,324 3 2,290 3 2,302 3 2,412 3 2,441 3

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 11,105 462 604 775 782 818 841 855Puerto Rico 473,735 866 30,968 36,217 33,432 34,442 36,919 36,860U.S. Virgin Islands 15,495 — 1,063 1,099 1,138 1,182 1,243 1,217See notes at end of table.

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Table 1. Public school student membership, by grade and state or jurisdiction: School year 2010–11—ContinuedState or jurisdiction Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Ungraded

United States2 3,682,052 3,676,309 3,659,405 4,007,857 3,799,883 3,538,482 3,471,888 118,221

Alabama 59,157 59,242 57,992 62,615 57,644 51,962 49,719 †Alaska 9,933 9,636 9,622 10,023 9,723 10,725 9,643 †Arizona 82,305 81,445 80,636 82,304 79,842 76,275 81,326 150Arkansas 36,591 36,306 36,237 37,807 35,280 32,739 30,330 518California 467,271 463,505 476,639 510,011 502,452 488,530 492,545 5,640

Colorado 61,755 60,928 59,684 62,258 60,775 58,307 60,899 †Connecticut 41,930 42,616 42,346 45,908 43,573 42,209 41,381 3 †Delaware 9,847 9,718 9,504 11,416 10,147 9,097 8,464 †District of Columbia 4,391 4,439 4,307 5,858 4,516 3,851 3,407 265Florida 202,303 200,147 201,676 214,993 205,142 186,399 178,315 †

Georgia 127,442 126,242 123,794 145,043 124,239 104,914 100,392 †Hawaii 13,285 12,982 12,567 15,164 13,466 12,527 10,818 215Idaho 21,563 20,985 20,588 22,062 20,451 19,840 19,362 †Illinois 153,748 154,281 154,293 169,967 169,365 150,576 146,953 †Indiana 79,585 79,928 79,790 84,139 81,558 77,285 74,836 †

Iowa 35,080 3 35,416 35,263 36,984 36,540 3 36,435 37,704 †Kansas 35,372 35,244 34,220 37,010 35,639 33,676 33,180 4,605Kentucky 49,988 3 49,633 3 48,525 3 52,668 3 50,262 3 46,008 3 43,723 3 460Louisiana 51,813 51,676 49,523 57,941 46,689 41,224 38,438 †Maine 14,034 14,413 14,358 14,836 14,996 15,001 15,315 †

Maryland 60,475 61,862 61,971 72,700 67,923 62,877 60,555 †Massachusetts 71,404 72,667 71,588 77,787 73,101 70,557 67,716 876Michigan 117,129 118,958 118,831 132,050 133,238 121,344 122,236 7,946Minnesota 60,831 61,321 61,706 63,935 65,013 65,465 73,661 †Mississippi 37,607 37,048 36,113 38,666 36,364 31,579 29,668 8,157

Missouri 67,913 69,153 66,944 73,080 69,794 66,855 65,990 †Montana 10,713 10,725 10,729 11,569 10,733 10,584 10,316 †Nebraska 21,103 20,992 20,875 22,567 21,998 21,407 22,236 †Nevada 34,054 3 33,947 3 33,070 3 33,780 3 34,199 3 32,645 3 29,207 3 647New Hampshire 14,795 3 15,191 3 15,407 3 16,832 3 15,994 3 15,290 3 15,019 3 †

New Jersey 100,245 100,225 99,630 106,281 103,267 98,237 97,358 56,860New Mexico 25,329 24,656 24,469 29,179 26,451 22,553 20,594 †New York 199,937 3 202,305 3 203,761 3 235,380 3 227,380 3 197,541 3 191,528 3 27,104North Carolina 115,186 113,310 111,112 126,090 111,889 102,676 91,541 790North Dakota 7,141 7,372 7,298 7,591 7,701 7,415 7,581 †See notes at end of table.

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Table 1. Public school student membership, by grade and state or jurisdiction: School year 2010–11—ContinuedState or jurisdiction Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Ungraded

Ohio 133,615 135,005 133,210 152,198 138,532 121,707 118,946 †Oklahoma 47,809 47,418 45,737 48,131 45,564 42,620 39,634 1,798Oregon 43,280 43,528 42,834 44,540 44,289 43,078 46,212 †Pennsylvania 134,782 135,869 135,876 150,150 148,716 141,866 141,710 2,190Rhode Island 9,889 11,150 10,954 12,888 11,814 10,891 10,466 †

South Carolina 54,788 54,280 52,904 62,161 54,685 48,708 44,703 †South Dakota 9,331 9,212 9,275 10,307 9,779 9,043 9,063 †Tennessee 74,615 3 73,363 3 71,475 3 76,010 3 73,509 3 68,755 3 67,441 3 †Texas 361,700 357,395 354,314 391,554 344,241 314,911 298,400 †Utah 44,797 3 43,942 3 42,227 3 41,419 3 40,964 3 39,446 3 38,744 3 †

Vermont 6,484 3 6,628 3 6,757 3 7,139 3 7,287 3 7,329 3 7,114 3 †Virginia 92,762 92,557 91,877 102,407 96,918 91,403 89,266 †Washington 78,531 78,489 78,448 84,449 81,990 79,465 83,712 †West Virginia 20,595 20,919 20,455 22,785 21,037 19,155 18,430 †Wisconsin 61,053 61,264 61,337 68,383 66,490 69,076 69,858 †Wyoming 6,766 6,776 6,657 6,842 6,724 6,424 6,233 †

Department of Defense schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions

Department of Defense (DoDEA) — — — — — — — †Bureau of Indian Education 3,195 2,998 2,992 2,802 2,663 2,309 2,203 †American Samoa — — — — — — — †Guam 2,469 3 2,382 3 2,771 3 3,404 3 2,713 3 2,096 3 1,844 3 †Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 826 856 816 1,088 873 740 716 53Puerto Rico 37,066 40,264 37,481 36,913 35,093 32,470 29,640 15,104U.S. Virgin Islands 1,183 1,234 1,159 1,677 1,120 1,098 1,082 †

3 In California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Guam one or more reported values was changed to the sum of grade detail by race/ethnicity from the State Nonfiscal Survey or the sum of grade detail from the School Universe survey.4 California and Oregon prekindergarten data taken from Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part B counts for students ages 3–5 years. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2010–11, Version 1a.

— Not available.† Not applicable. Data were edited to not applicable.1 Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year.2 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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State or jurisdiction

Total students

reported2

American Indian/Alaska Native Asian

Native Hawaiian/

Pacific Islander Hispanic Black White

Two or more races

American Indian/Alaska Native Asian

Native Hawaiian/

Pacific Islander Hispanic Black White

Two or more races

Reporting states3 49,402,385 564,949 2,287,310 170,031 11,399,633 7,911,927 25,907,184 1,161,351 1.1 4.6 0.3 23.1 16.0 52.4 2.4

Alabama 755,552 6,102 9,614 139 35,389 261,255 440,519 2,534 0.8 1.3 0.0 4.7 34.6 58.3 0.3Alaska 132,104 30,433 7,816 2,740 7802 4,788 68,967 9,558 23.0 5.9 2.1 5.9 3.6 52.2 7.2Arizona 1,071,751 55,312 30,080 2,347 452,283 59,549 459,348 12,832 5.2 2.8 0.2 42.2 5.6 42.9 1.2Arkansas 482,114 3,369 6,828 2,151 47,340 103,637 312,372 6,417 0.7 1.4 0.4 9.8 21.5 64.8 1.3California 6,217,174 43,546 688,613 35,807 3,197,490 416,299 1,655,539 179,880 0.7 11.1 0.6 51.4 6.7 26.6 2.9

Colorado 843,316 7,452 24,493 1,844 266,098 40,537 479,327 23,565 0.9 2.9 0.2 31.6 4.8 56.8 2.8Connecticut 560,546 2,100 24,070 296 104,312 74,130 347,739 7,899 0.4 4.3 0.1 18.6 13.2 62.0 1.4Delaware 129,403 635 4,393 48 15,988 41,737 64,784 1,818 0.5 3.4 0.0 12.4 32.3 50.1 1.4District of Columbia 71,284 52 963 64 8,980 55,441 5,093 691 0.1 1.4 0.1 12.6 77.8 7.1 1.0Florida 2,643,347 10,493 64,900 2,980 740,786 607,134 1,137,860 79,194 0.4 2.5 0.1 28.0 23.0 43.0 3.0

Georgia 1,677,067 3,959 55,150 1,630 200,086 621,222 745,145 49,875 0.2 3.3 0.1 11.9 37.0 44.4 3.0Hawaii 179,601 1,071 63,125 61,954 7,996 4,444 25,962 15,049 0.6 35.1 34.5 4.5 2.5 14.5 8.4Idaho 275,859 3,846 3,577 976 43,795 2,819 216,683 4,163 1.4 1.3 0.4 15.9 1.0 78.5 1.5Illinois 2,091,654 6,846 85,509 2,266 479,515 384,701 1,072,617 60,200 0.3 4.1 0.1 22.9 18.4 51.3 2.9Indiana 1,047,232 3,376 16,948 522 88,133 126,783 765,473 45,997 0.3 1.6 0.0 8.4 12.1 73.1 4.4

Iowa 495,775 2,362 9,914 709 42,295 25,215 404,160 11,120 0.5 2.0 0.1 8.5 5.1 81.5 2.2Kansas 483,701 6,184 12,037 759 79,129 35,958 329,036 20,598 1.3 2.5 0.2 16.4 7.4 68.0 4.3Kentucky 673,128 941 9,123 420 26,188 72,915 551,461 12,080 0.1 1.4 0.1 3.9 10.8 81.9 1.8Louisiana 696,558 6,585 10,140 382 18,145 316,083 338,126 7,097 0.9 1.5 0.1 2.6 45.4 48.5 1.0Maine 189,077 1,385 1,990 102 2,766 3,347 174,828 4,659 0.7 1.1 0.1 1.5 1.8 92.5 2.5

Maryland 852,211 3,047 48,693 1,246 98,404 305,310 366,004 29,507 0.4 5.7 0.1 11.5 35.8 42.9 3.5Massachusetts 955,563 2,382 52,770 1,053 147,524 78,825 650,166 22,843 0.2 5.5 0.1 15.4 8.2 68.0 2.4Michigan 1,587,067 13,003 41,553 1,522 92,734 301,176 1,107,198 29,881 0.8 2.6 0.1 5.8 19.0 69.8 1.9Minnesota 838,037 16,296 50,153 551 60,175 77,015 618,819 15,028 1.9 6.0 0.1 7.2 9.2 73.8 1.8Mississippi 490,526 930 4,550 99 12,360 244,634 225,697 2,256 0.2 0.9 0.0 2.5 49.9 46.0 0.5

Missouri 918,710 4,341 16,984 1,096 41,691 156,941 686,147 11,510 0.5 1.8 0.1 4.5 17.1 74.7 1.3Montana 141,693 15,734 1,194 367 4,996 1,378 115,827 2,197 11.1 0.8 0.3 3.5 1.0 81.7 1.6Nebraska 298,500 4,413 6,013 337 47,900 19,990 211,205 8,642 1.5 2.0 0.1 16.0 6.7 70.8 2.9Nevada 437,149 5,705 26,682 4,527 169,236 43,225 169,220 18,554 1.3 6.1 1.0 38.7 9.9 38.7 4.2New Hampshire 194,711 653 5,244 126 7,231 3,821 174,778 2,858 0.3 2.7 0.1 3.7 2.0 89.8 1.5See notes at end of table.

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Table 2. Public school student membership and percentage distribution of public school student membership, by race/ethnicity and state or jurisdiction: School year 2010–11

Student membership1 Percentage distribution of student membership

State or jurisdiction

Total students

reported3

American Indian/Alaska Native Asian

Native Hawaiian/

Pacific Islander Hispanic Black White

Two or more races

American Indian/Alaska Native Asian

Native Hawaiian/

Pacific Islander Hispanic Black White

Two or more races

Table 2. Public school student membership and percentage distribution of public school student membership, by race/ethnicity and state or jurisdiction: School year 2010–11—Continued

Student membership1 Percentage distribution of student membership

New Jersey 1,402,548 1,864 121,265 3,254 309,673 234,395 722,642 9,455 0.1 8.6 0.2 22.1 16.7 51.5 0.7New Mexico 338,122 34,530 4,194 203 200,774 7,151 88,009 3,261 10.2 1.2 0.1 59.4 2.1 26.0 1.0New York 2,734,955 14,541 226,894 0 611,873 519,113 1,346,498 16,036 0.5 8.3 0.0 22.4 19.0 49.2 0.6North Carolina 1,490,605 22,199 36,411 1,127 187,967 394,635 792,461 55,805 1.5 2.4 0.1 12.6 26.5 53.2 3.7North Dakota 96,323 8,789 1,072 195 95 2,318 80,661 3,193 9.1 1.1 0.2 0.1 2.4 83.7 3.3

Ohio 1,754,191 2,519 30,048 593 60,506 285,091 1,301,921 73,513 0.1 1.7 0.0 3.4 16.3 74.2 4.2Oklahoma 659,911 116,597 12,252 1,864 81,009 67,107 360,125 20,957 17.7 1.9 0.3 12.3 10.2 54.6 3.2Oregon 561,328 10,406 21,720 3,513 115,102 14,599 372,194 23,794 1.9 3.9 0.6 20.5 2.6 66.3 4.2Pennsylvania 1,793,284 2,892 55,885 1,029 149,247 280,981 1,276,052 27,198 0.2 3.1 0.1 8.3 15.7 71.2 1.5Rhode Island 143,793 951 4,158 210 29,917 11,457 93,683 3,417 0.7 2.9 0.1 20.8 8.0 65.2 2.4

South Carolina 725,838 2,111 9,582 870 46,202 263,034 387,520 16,519 0.3 1.3 0.1 6.4 36.2 53.4 2.3South Dakota 126,128 14,683 1,731 137 4,352 3,144 100,680 1,401 11.6 1.4 0.1 3.5 2.5 79.8 1.1Tennessee 987,422 1,902 15,772 1,068 60,549 236,013 664,947 7,171 0.2 1.6 0.1 6.1 23.9 67.3 0.7Texas 4,935,715 23,607 169,358 6,131 2,480,792 638,377 1,539,026 78,424 0.5 3.4 0.1 50.3 12.9 31.2 1.6Utah 585,552 7,816 10,726 9,216 88,285 8,468 456,510 4,531 1.3 1.8 1.6 15.1 1.4 78.0 0.8

Vermont 96,858 268 1,496 67 1,307 1,787 89,899 2,034 0.3 1.5 0.1 1.3 1.8 92.8 2.1Virginia 1,251,440 4,251 73,220 1,713 142,536 301,427 677,123 51,170 0.3 5.9 0.1 11.4 24.1 54.1 4.1Washington 1,043,788 17,570 75,098 9,025 187,783 50,048 655,984 48,280 1.7 7.2 0.9 18.0 4.8 62.8 4.6West Virginia 282,879 338 2,006 57 3,139 14,786 260,278 2,275 0.1 0.7 0.0 1.1 5.2 92.0 0.8Wisconsin 872,286 11,625 30,583 582 80,826 86,665 648,801 13,204 1.3 3.5 0.1 9.3 9.9 74.4 1.5Wyoming 89,009 2,937 720 117 10,932 1,022 72,070 1,211 3.3 0.8 0.1 12.3 1.1 81.0 1.4

Department of Defense schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions

Department of Defense (DoDEA) — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —Bureau of Indian Education 41,962 41,962 0 † 0 0 0 † 100.0 0.0 † 0.0 0.0 0.0 †American Samoa — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —Guam 31,618 320 6,997 21,748 33 69 590 1,861 1.0 22.1 68.8 0.1 0.2 1.9 5.9Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 11,105 0 4,248 6,747 0 0 66 44 0.0 38.3 60.8 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.4Puerto Rico 473,735 463 35 47 472,649 76 461 4 0.1 # # 99.8 # 0.1 #U.S. Virgin Islands 15,495 28 49 18 3,086 11,890 228 196 0.2 0.3 0.1 19.9 76.7 1.5 1.3— Not available.† Not applicable. These states report membership in the 5-race category and thus do not report data for Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and "Two or more races".# Rounds to zero.

2 Totals exclude students for whom race/ethnicity was not reported. 3 Reporting states totals include any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia that reported all data elements.NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino. Asian/Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2010–11, Version 1a.

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1 Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year.

State or jurisdictionTotal staff Teachers

Instructional aides

Instructional coordinators

and supervisors

Guidance counselors/

directors Librarians

Student/other

support staff1

School administrators

School district

administrators

Administrative support

staff2

United States3 6,195,207 3,099,095 731,705 69,236 105,079 50,300 1,482,224 165,047 64,597 427,926 Percentage distribution 100.0 50.0 11.8 1.1 1.7 0.8 23.9 2.7 1.0 6.9

Alabama 95,144 49,363 6,550 1,013 1,802 1,413 26,655 2,606 803 4,939Alaska 18,102 8,171 2,537 192 4 327 163 3,334 683 709 1,987Arizona 96,622 50,031 14,386 98 1,245 529 22,006 2,471 425 5,431Arkansas 72,185 34,273 8,065 847 1,527 1,088 18,269 1,767 668 5,681California 530,337 5 260,806 5 63,972 3,391 6 6,191 6 757 6 123,619 4 15,267 6 3,579 6 52,755 6

Colorado 101,426 48,543 14,680 2,434 2,100 773 19,805 2,777 1,174 9,140Connecticut 93,088 42,951 15,637 6 3,496 1,081 781 20,154 6 2,127 1,800 5,060 6

Delaware 16,478 8,933 1,577 226 281 134 3,734 6 413 366 813District of Columbia 11,381 5,925 1,635 377 260 111 1,501 491 246 836Florida 333,183 175,609 30,031 696 5,859 2,589 77,207 7,957 1,920 31,315

Georgia 227,188 112,460 25,773 2,353 3,557 2,247 6 60,792 6 6,157 6 2,300 6 11,549 6

Hawaii 21,704 11,396 2,407 573 632 208 3,952 571 218 1,747Idaho 27,783 15,673 2,991 229 564 98 5,916 701 133 1,478Illinois 215,764 132,983 30,219 4 491 3,193 1,960 32,539 4 7,362 2,828 4,190 4

Indiana 138,802 5 58,121 5 23,589 4 2,219 1,688 646 40,615 4 2,903 1,096 7,925

Iowa 69,615 34,642 10,531 305 1,157 513 15,276 1,740 1,237 4,211Kansas 67,751 34,644 9,163 970 1,061 797 15,373 1,807 477 3,459Kentucky 99,225 42,042 14,325 1,000 1,515 1,122 27,154 3,147 922 7,999Louisiana 100,881 48,655 11,448 2,079 1,919 1,157 26,030 2,880 380 6,332Maine 32,549 15,384 5,744 250 575 222 7,066 876 418 2,015

Maryland 115,367 58,428 11,360 1,792 2,389 1,245 25,095 6 3,635 3,328 8,095Massachusetts 122,057 68,754 23,484 408 2,168 727 11,306 4,382 2,496 8,332Michigan 193,487 88,615 21,379 3,347 2,249 746 56,584 4,751 3,132 12,683Minnesota 108,993 52,672 16,759 2,035 1,072 709 6 25,339 6 2,103 6 2,072 6 6,232 6

Mississippi 67,866 32,255 8,195 649 1,096 872 17,546 1,912 989 4,353

Missouri 128,289 66,735 13,314 6 1,081 6 2,613 6 1,477 30,099 6 3,136 1,395 8,439 6

Montana 19,249 10,361 2,397 165 457 369 4,266 4 534 175 525 4

Nebraska 45,509 22,345 6,506 999 811 556 10,030 1,029 614 2,619Nevada 33,400 21,839 4,152 4 1,380 4 880 376 1,455 4 993 30 2,295 4

New Hampshire 32,955 15,365 7,356 264 7 824 330 6,281 7 506 6 742 1,287 6

New Jersey 202,634 110,202 26,227 3,138 3,904 1,585 38,195 4 4,651 1,394 13,339New Mexico 46,519 22,437 6,009 659 815 272 10,359 1,309 897 3,761New York 413,971 211,606 37,849 1,979 6,979 2,775 111,280 9,282 2,921 29,300North Carolina 193,039 98,357 26,173 1,043 3,976 2,290 42,034 5,101 1,565 12,500North Dakota 16,239 8,417 2,071 179 309 193 3,389 447 474 760See notes at end of table.

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Table 3. Number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) staff for public schools, by staff category and state or jurisdiction: School year 2010–11

State or jurisdictionTotal staff Teachers

Instructional aides

Instructional coordinators

and supervisors

Guidance counselors/

directors Librarians

Student/other

support staff1

School administrators

School district

administrators

Administrative support

staff2

Table 3. Number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) staff for public schools, by staff category and state or jurisdiction: School year 2010–11—Continued

Ohio 241,212 109,282 19,333 1,676 3,655 1,217 73,111 5,053 2,110 25,775Oklahoma 82,262 41,278 8,362 329 1,610 1,072 20,318 2,147 593 6,555Oregon 63,603 28,109 9,837 409 1,032 306 14,900 1,584 446 6,980Pennsylvania 266,796 129,911 34,314 1,671 4,763 2,136 67,768 5,531 2,708 17,993Rhode Island 18,632 11,212 2,224 84 384 298 2,720 452 85 1,173

South Carolina 65,508 45,210 8,475 453 1,816 1,085 3,636 2,554 704 1,574South Dakota 19,545 9,512 2,454 132 345 137 6 4,862 6 430 6 764 6 909 6

Tennessee 128,197 66,558 16,243 836 2,889 1,933 30,648 3,360 174 5,556Texas 665,419 334,997 63,338 3,456 11,212 5,097 171,399 22,360 6,563 46,997Utah 52,341 25,677 8,214 1,699 807 279 11,007 1,300 367 2,991

Vermont 18,485 8,382 4,284 235 413 212 3,219 488 135 1,117Virginia 201,047 70,947 19,388 13,419 3,977 1,978 73,489 4,606 1,537 11,705Washington 103,783 53,934 10,422 358 2,045 1,134 24,409 2,800 2,416 6,266West Virginia 39,270 20,338 3,632 370 738 352 10,375 4 1,105 771 1,589Wisconsin 103,901 57,625 10,292 1,326 1,874 1,074 21,983 2,447 973 6,306Wyoming 16,424 7,127 2,402 424 444 161 4,126 354 330 1,056

Department of Defense schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictionsDepartment of Defense (DoDEA) — — — — — — — — — —Bureau of Indian Education — — — — — — — — — —American Samoa — — — — — — — — — —Guam 3,383 1,843 631 92 59 23 229 82 14 410Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 1,215 607 244 10 36 — 149 40 8 121Puerto Rico 59,261 36,506 95 104 828 1,183 14,569 1,464 450 4,062U.S. Virgin Islands 2,918 1,457 367 29 85 30 734 84 28 104— Not available.1 Student/other support staff include library support staff, student support services staff, and all other nonadministrative support staff.2 Administrative support staff include district- and school-level administrative support staff.3 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

6 State total includes one or more imputed values or has been edited to reflect the sum of prekindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and teachers of ungraded classes. 7 Using current year's reporting, data were disaggregated from current-year totals.NOTE: All staff counts are FTE count. Staff categories presented in this table may differ from those published by states. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2010–11, Version 1a.

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4 Data were edited. There were several variations in the way edits were carried out. See Section II.B.2. in "Documentation to the Common Core of Data State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education: School Year 2010–11" for more information regarding the edit methods.5 Data were imputed based on prior-year (fall 2009) data. See the Section II.B.1. in the "Documentation to the Common Core of Data State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education: School Year 2010–11" for more information regarding the imputation methods.

Table 4. Total student membership, total staff, student/teacher ratio, and student/staff ratio for public elementary/secondary education, by teacher and staff category and state or jurisdiction: School year Table 6. 2010–11

Student/teacher ratio Student/staff ratio

State or jurisdiction

Totalstudent

membership1Totalstaff

Totalstudent/teacher

ratio2

Kindergartenstudent/teacher

ratio

Elementarystudent/teacher

ratio3

Secondarystudent/teacher

ratio4

Total student/other

instructional and student support

staff ratio5

Total student/administrative support staff

ratio6

Total student/administrative

and all other support staff

ratio7

United States8 49,484,181 6,195,207 16.0 21.5 20.0 12.4 42.9 215.5 30.8

Alabama 755,552 95,144 15.3 11.3 21.0 10.4 63.1 221.6 26.4Alaska 132,104 18,102 16.2 23.1 16.5 14.2 37.4 94.9 28.2Arizona 1,071,751 96,622 21.4 29.8 20.6 21.5 45.4 370.0 56.9Arkansas 482,114 72,185 14.1 16.9 19.7 9.7 26.8 198.0 30.2California 6,289,578 9 530,337 24.1 24.0 24.5 23.7 71.1 333.7 40.3

Colorado 843,316 101,426 17.4 18.2 21.6 11.8 34.8 213.4 37.4Connecticut 560,546 9 93,088 13.1 22.5 12.9 12.3 24.1 142.7 25.6Delaware 129,403 16,478 14.5 24.6 19.8 8.7 48.2 166.0 34.0District of Columbia 71,284 9 11,381 12.0 21.3 14.7 8.6 24.6 96.8 45.8Florida 2,643,347 333,183 15.1 19.2 25.2 11.8 59.1 267.6 27.2

Georgia 1,677,067 227,188 14.9 18.7 17.5 10.8 42.7 198.3 26.4Hawaii 179,601 21,704 15.8 27.5 20.6 10.1 36.5 227.6 45.2Idaho 275,859 27,783 17.6 33.1 25.5 10.0 64.3 330.7 43.0Illinois 2,091,654 9 215,764 15.7 54.3 14.3 15.0 47.3 205.3 83.1Indiana 1,047,232 9 138,802 18.0 27.7 22.2 12.3 34.6 261.9 23.4

Iowa 495,775 9 69,615 14.3 14.5 14.0 13.9 31.1 166.5 33.3Kansas 483,701 67,751 14.0 21.8 19.6 8.3 30.8 211.8 34.4Kentucky 673,128 9 99,225 16.0 43.0 20.8 19.5 34.3 165.5 21.1Louisiana 696,558 100,881 14.3 22.6 14.5 11.9 35.1 213.6 25.6Maine 189,077 32,549 12.3 17.5 11.5 12.6 23.4 146.1 26.3

Maryland 852,211 115,367 14.6 20.2 16.3 11.0 43.4 122.4 30.5Massachusetts 955,563 122,057 13.9 19.0 14.1 12.4 27.8 138.9 97.2Michigan 1,587,067 193,487 17.9 27.1 30.4 14.6 40.2 201.3 28.7Minnesota 838,037 108,993 15.9 22.4 21.2 11.4 26.2 200.7 44.0Mississippi 490,526 67,866 15.2 20.8 23.4 10.6 38.3 169.1 26.1

Missouri 918,710 128,289 13.8 17.1 19.2 8.5 45.0 202.8 27.0Montana 141,693 19,249 13.7 16.6 14.0 13.1 37.7 199.8 35.7Nebraska 298,500 45,509 13.4 18.7 14.5 10.4 30.4 181.7 27.4Nevada 437,149 9 33,400 20.0 34.1 27.6 16.1 69.9 427.3 128.5New Hampshire 194,711 9 32,955 12.7 23.5 12.0 12.7 21.8 156.0 29.6

New Jersey 1,402,548 202,634 12.7 29.4 14.8 10.6 32.5 232.0 35.6New Mexico 338,122 46,519 15.1 20.9 25.2 11.5 33.3 153.3 31.0New York 2,734,955 9 413,971 12.9 14.6 18.8 12.3 48.9 224.1 21.5North Carolina 1,490,605 9 193,039 15.2 24.6 21.2 9.1 37.5 223.6 33.6North Dakota 96,323 16,239 11.4 14.8 11.9 10.1 28.0 104.6 30.5See notes at end of table.

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Table 4. Total student membership, total staff, student/teacher ratio, and student/staff ratio for public elementary/secondary education, by teacher and staff category and state or jurisdiction: School year Table 6. 2010–11—Continued

Student/teacher ratio Student/staff ratio

State or jurisdiction

Totalstudent

membership1Totalstaff

Totalstudent/teacher

ratio2

Kindergartenstudent/teacher

ratio

Elementarystudent/teacher

ratio3

Secondarystudent/teacher

ratio4

Total student/other

instructional and student support

staff ratio5

Total student/administrative support staff

ratio6

Total student/administrative

and all other support staff

ratio7

Ohio 1,754,191 241,212 16.1 21.5 23.3 10.2 39.4 244.9 22.9Oklahoma 659,911 82,262 16.0 21.8 21.2 9.3 44.3 240.9 30.3Oregon 570,720 9 63,603 20.3 22.4 19.4 21.2 42.1 281.1 30.3Pennsylvania 1,793,284 266,796 13.8 24.6 19.1 10.0 37.0 217.7 23.8Rhode Island 143,793 18,632 12.8 25.3 17.9 7.8 45.8 267.7 42.8

South Carolina 725,838 65,508 16.1 23.9 15.3 15.6 54.0 222.8 405.1South Dakota 126,128 19,545 13.3 21.5 14.1 14.8 32.8 105.7 27.2Tennessee 987,422 9 128,197 14.8 18.8 15.0 14.8 47.4 279.5 28.7Texas 4,935,715 665,419 14.7 18.6 21.4 10.1 50.0 170.7 25.8Utah 585,552 9 52,341 22.8 37.6 32.4 15.8 48.2 351.2 48.7

Vermont 96,858 9 18,485 11.6 16.6 18.0 8.7 16.5 155.6 30.2Virginia 1,251,440 9 201,047 17.6 21.9 26.7 10.3 28.6 203.7 16.4Washington 1,043,788 103,783 19.4 26.0 25.3 14.0 65.8 200.1 39.1West Virginia 282,879 39,270 13.9 20.0 20.6 7.5 45.2 150.8 28.1Wisconsin 872,286 103,901 15.1 18.3 20.9 9.5 44.1 255.1 41.2Wyoming 89,009 16,424 12.5 18.4 16.4 7.8 22.5 130.2 21.2

Department of Defense schools, Bureau of Indian Education, and other jurisdictions

Department of Defense (DoDEA) — — — — — — — — —Bureau of Indian Education 41,962 — — — — — — — —American Samoa — — — — — — — — —Guam 31,618 9 3,383 17 25 24 11 39 329 55Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 11,105 1,215 18.3 27.5 23.0 12.8 36.5 231.4 50.5Puerto Rico 473,735 59,261 13.0 — 17.4 9.5 91.4 247.5 31.9U.S. Virgin Islands 15,495 2,918 10.6 21.3 16.7 10.6 24.1 138.3 25.0— Not available.1 Membership is the count of students enrolled on October 1 of the reported school year.2 Total teachers include prekindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and teachers of ungraded classes.3 Elementary students includes students in grades 1–8.4 Secondary students includes students in grades 9–12.5 Other instructional and student support staff includes instructional aides, instructional coordinators and supervisors, librarians, library support staff, and student support staff.6 Administrative staff includes school and school district administrators.7 Administrative and all other support staff includes district- and school-level administrative support staff and all other support staff.8 U.S. totals include the 50 states and the District of Columbia.9 In California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Guamone or more reported values was changed to the sum of grade detail by race/ethnicity from the State Nonfiscal Survey or the sum of grade detail from the School Universe survey. NOTE: All staff counts are full-time-equivalent (FTE) counts. Some staff counts were imputed based on prior-year data. Some staff counts were edited or disaggregated from reported totals.

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2010–11, Version 1a.

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Appendix A: Methodology and Technical Notes

Common Core of Data survey system. The State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education, the Local Education Agency Universe Survey, and the Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey are the nonfiscal components of the Common Core of Data (CCD) survey system.

Participation in 2010–11. The state education agencies (SEAs) report the data annually through the Department of Education’s EDFacts collection system. The 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Bureau of Indian Education reported in EDFacts for the 2010–11 school year; the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam reported directly to the CCD. The Department of Defense schools and American Samoa did not report data for the 2010–11 school year.

States report data to the EDFacts collection system through multiple file groups that fall into different reporting schedules throughout the year. The 2010–11 school year EDFacts collection of CCD data opened in January 2011. Depending on the specific variable or state, the data were extracted from EDFacts between January 21, 2011 and November 8, 2011. Late reports or updates from states may be included in subsequent file releases.

Data quality. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) performs an extensive quality review of all CCD data submissions and asks state CCD coordinators to correct or confirm any numbers that appear out of range when compared to other states’ data or with the state’s reports in previous years. If no correction or explanation for anomalous data is provided by the state, NCES may edit the data value. For example, NCES will replace a reported total with the sum of detail in cases where the sum of detail exceeds a reported total. NCES also edits values to “not available” if data values are not plausible (e.g., if the number of students increases tenfold from the prior year to the current year while the number of teachers remains unchanged from the prior year, NCES would set the current year value for teachers to “not available”).

Missing data. Not all states or jurisdictions collect and report all of the data items requested in CCD surveys. NCES attempts to complete missing data first by drawing on other sources. For example, if an SEA does not report the number of teachers in the State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education, but reports the number of teachers for each local education agency (LEA) in the Local Education Agency Universe Survey, NCES would complete the state-level number by summing the number of teachers from the state’s LEAs. In some cases, if a state is unable to report data during the collection period but publishes them later through a written report or website, NCES may import data from these other published sources to complete missing items. When this is done, table footnotes identify all instances in which NCES summed or imported data from other CCD surveys or outside sources. NCES uses editing procedures to complete missing data for any CCD data item in any of the three CCD nonfiscal surveys, as necessary.

If NCES cannot complete missing data by summing from other CCD surveys or using alternate external sources, NCES imputes some missing items (i.e., replaces a nonresponse with a plausible value) in the State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education. (See below for information on imputation procedures.) NCES currently does not impute data items in

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the Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey or the Local Education Agency Universe Survey.

If information is missing for some but no more than 15 percent of states across the 50 states and the District of Columbia, NCES calculates totals and identifies them as “reporting states” totals (rather than totals for the United States). The file documentation for the State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education includes precise information about the extent of missing data for each data item. This documentation may be found at http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/stnfis.asp.

Imputed and edited data. NCES imputes and edits some reported values in the State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education to create data files that more accurately reflect student and staff counts and to improve comparability among states. Imputations and edits are performed on data from the 50 states and District of Columbia only.

Imputations provide plausible values in cases where the data are missing. An imputation assigns a value to the missing item; as a result, subtotals containing this item increase by the amount of the imputation. An example of one of the imputation methods used is the following: if a state is unable to report the number of prekindergarten teachers employed by the state, the number of prekindergarten teachers would be imputed by calculating a median growth rate for all states that reported prekindergarten teachers in the previous and current year, and applying this median growth rate to the previous year’s number of prekindergarten teachers. For more information about the imputation procedures used to assign values to missing items, please refer to the documentation for the State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education, which can be accessed at http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/stnfis.asp.

Edits are corrections for reported values. There are several variations in the way edits are carried out. An example of one of the edits is the following: if a state reports a total count of teachers that exceeds or is less than the sum of associated detail counts, but none of the associated components has been imputed, the reported total is edited to equal the sum of the associated detail counts. For more information about the procedures used to edit reported data, please refer to the documentation for the State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education, which can be accessed at http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/stnfis.asp.

Totals. United States totals reported in the tables are limited to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. They do not include data from the Bureau of Indian Education, Department of Defense schools, Puerto Rico, or the other jurisdictions of American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the U.S. Virgin Islands. See “Missing data” on page A-1 for more information.

Agreement across survey levels. Some students receive a public education outside a local school district (e.g., they may attend a state-operated residential school). Some students in a regular school district may not be served by a school. For example, hospital-bound or homebound students may be reported in the membership for a regular school district but not in any of the district’s schools. NCES derives the numbers of students and staff shown in the tables for any CCD First Look report from the survey represented in that report. Therefore, the numbers may

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differ across reports. The numbers reported in the State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education are considered the official statistics for a state.

Staff counts. SEAs report all staff counts (including teachers) in full-time-equivalent (FTE) units. This is the amount of time required to perform an assignment stated as a proportion of a full-time position. It is computed by dividing the amount of time an individual is employed by the time normally required for a full-time position.

State agencies vary in their staff data collection and reporting systems, with resulting variations across states. Several states collapse two or more categories of staff (including teachers) into one. In these cases, for the state nonfiscal data only, NCES edits this number by distributing the reported number of staff across the several categories based on the average distribution of these staff in the reporting states. NCES does not edit staff counts in the LEA and school surveys.

Race/ethnicity data. Beginning with the 2008–09 school year, NCES began transitioning from five race/ethnicity categories for collection of aggregated data to seven race/ethnicity categories, which are American Indian, Asian, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, Hispanic, Black, White, and Two or more races. In school years 2008–09 and 2009–10, NCES gave SEAs the option to choose between 5-category reporting and 7-category reporting. For the 2008–09 school year, five states reported their race/ethnicity data in the seven categories: Alaska, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Vermont. For the 2009–10 school year, 14 states reported their race/ethnicity data into the seven categories: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming. For the 2010–11 school year, NCES asked that all SEAs report race/ethnicity data in seven categories, and all 50 states and the District of Columbia complied. For more information on this change, please refer to the October 19, 2007 Federal Register notice, Final Guidance from the Secretary on Maintaining, Collecting, and Reporting Racial and Ethnic Data to the U.S. Department of Education, located at http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/other/2007-4/101907c.html.

For more detailed explanations of CCD methodology and technical information, see the documentation to the NCES Common Core of Data State Nonfiscal Survey: School Year 2010–11, which can be accessed at http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/ccddata.asp.

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Appendix B: Common Core of Data Glossary

American Indian/Alaska Native—A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment. (OMB directive, 1997)

Asian—A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Island, Thailand, and Vietnam. (OMB directive, 1997)

Black or African American—A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. (OMB directive, 1997)

Bureau of Indian Education school and district—A school or district that is directly funded by the Bureau of Indian Education (formerly Bureau of Indian Affairs), U.S. Department of the Interior.

elementary/secondary education—Programs providing instruction, or assisting in providing instruction, for students in prekindergarten, kindergarten, grades 1–12, and ungraded programs.

full-time equivalency (FTE)—The amount of time required to perform an assignment stated as a proportion of a full-time position and computed by dividing the amount of time employed by the time normally required for a full-time position.

guidance counselor/director—Professional staff assigned specific duties and school time for counseling students and parents, addressing learning problems, evaluating student abilities, and assisting students in career and personal development. The state applies its own standards in apportioning the aggregate of guidance counselors/directors into the elementary and secondary level components.

Hispanic—A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. (OMB directive, 1997)

instructional aide—Staff assigned to assist a teacher with routine activities associated with teaching (i.e., activities requiring minor decisions regarding students), such as monitoring, conducting rote exercises, operating equipment, and clerking. Includes only paid staff, and excludes volunteer aides.

instructional coordinator and supervisor—Staff supervising instructional programs at the school district or subdistrict level, including supervisors of educational television staff; coordinators and supervisors of audiovisual services; curriculum coordinators and in-service training staff; Title I coordinators and home economics supervisors; and supervisory staff engaged in the development of computer-assisted instruction. School-based department chairpersons are excluded.

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kindergarten—A group or class that is part of a public school program and is taught during the year preceding first grade.

librarian or media specialist—A professional staff member or supervisor assigned specific duties and school time for professional library services activities. These include selecting, acquiring, preparing, cataloging, and circulating books and other printed materials; planning the use of the library by students, teachers, and instructional staff; and guiding individuals in the use of library books and material maintained separately or as a part of an instructional materials center.

library and media support staff—Staff member who renders other professional library and media services; also includes library aides and those involved in library/media support. Duties include selecting, preparing, caring for, and making available to instructional staff, equipment, films, filmstrips, transparencies, tapes, TV programs, and similar materials maintained separately or as part of an instructional materials center. Also include activities in the audiovisual center, TV studio, related work-study areas, and services provided by audiovisual personnel.

local education agency (LEA)—The government agency at the local level whose primary responsibility is to operate public schools or to contract for public school services.

local education agency (LEA) administrative support staff—Staff members providing direct support to LEA administrators, business office support, data processing, secretarial, and other clerical staff.

local education agency (LEA) administrator—Chief executive officers of education agencies, including superintendents, deputies, and assistant superintendents; other persons with district-wide responsibilities (e.g., accountants, auditors, business managers, facilities managers, technology or information system administrators, or supervisors of transportation, food services, or security). Excludes supervisors of instructional coordinators, supervisors of guidance counselors, and supervisors of student support staff. (These staff are reported under “student support services staff.”)

Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander—A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. (OMB directive, 1997)

other support staff—Support staff not reported in instructional or student support. Include employees such as plant and equipment maintenance, bus drivers, security, and food service workers.

prekindergarten student—A student who is enrolled in a group or class that is part of a public school program taught during the year or years preceding kindergarten, excluding Head Start students unless part of an authorized public education program of a local education agency.

public school—An institution that provides educational services and: (1) has one or more grade groups (prekindergarten through grade 12) or is ungraded; (2) has one or more teachers to give

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instruction; (3) is located in one or more buildings or sites; (4) has an assigned administrator; (5) receives public funds as primary support; and (6) is operated by an education agency.

school administrative support staff—Staff whose activities are concerned with support of the teaching and administrative duties of the office of the principal or department chairpersons. Include clerical staff and secretaries.

school administrator—Staff whose activities are concerned with directing and managing the operation of a particular school. Category includes principals, assistant principals, and other assistants; and persons who supervise school operations, assign duties to staff members, supervise and maintain the records of the school, and coordinate school instructional activities with those of the education agency, including department chairpersons.

student membership—Annual headcount of students enrolled in school on October 1 or the school day closest to that date. In any given year, some small schools will not have any students.

student support services staff—Professional staff members whose activities are concerned with the direct support of students and who nurture, but do not instruct, students. Include attendance officers; staff providing health, psychology, speech pathology, audiology, or social services; and supervisors of the preceding staff. Include coaches, athletic advisors, and athletic trainers if position does not require teaching credentials.

student/teacher ratio—The ratio of students to teachers in a school district, based on the total number of students (student membership) and the total FTE number of teachers reported in the schools associated with the school district. The student/teacher ratio does not represent class size, but rather is a district-level measure of students and teachers.

teacher—A professional school staff member who instructs students in prekindergarten, kindergarten, grades 1–12, or ungraded classes and maintains daily student attendance records.

Two or more races—A person choosing more than one of the five race categories. (OMB directive, 1997)

ungraded class—A class that is not organized on the basis of grade grouping and has no standard grade designation. This includes regular classes that have no grade designations and special classes for exceptional students that have no grade designations. Such a class is likely to contain students of different ages who, frequently, are identified according to level of performance in one or more areas of instruction rather than according to grade level or age level.

White—A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East. (OMB directive, 1997)